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powder barrel
noun as in powder horn
Weak matches
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This is like preaching security and peace while your lighted match is applied to the powder barrel.
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So he shifted from the powder barrel to the sharp horn of the other dilemma and shifted back again.
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Galusha, listening to his cousin's stories and jokes, had almost forgotten his powder barrel.
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Hastily he stepped up to the powder barrel and prepared to pluck out the candle.
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Fire in a powder-barrel could not have had a more rousing effect than my determined stand against the enemy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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